the blue blog archives: afghan square of the day: the 60 degree mitre

I'm no mathematical genuis and I haven't checked with my protractor or anything, but something tells me that middle mitre ain't 45 degrees! After about 48 squares, I sort of lost my mitre mojo and knit a dud. I was cruising along and then got near the end and realized that I had waaaaay more stitches on one side of the "center" line than the other. Whooops. I did some serious fudging on this one. And it shows. There'll be no keeping that one if I want lovely little matching mitre lines in my squares.

Adding the one measly mitre I finished last night and minus this one mangled mitre, I'm still at fifty-one and counting....

posted by alison at 9:37 am | in a crafty christmas , an afghan

Comments

i've been looking for some mitre suggestions and can't find one that seems all that clear to me. I read the cast on, start decreases in the middle stitches... but then what? don't you have to increase again at some point? i'm confuzzled...

i suppose i could test it out before i need to fully understand it.

i love your blanket so much, i'm dying to make one myself. you know... over the course of a few years. :)

I can't WAIT to see it when it's done!

Posted by: christen at November 28, 2007 10:26 AM

i seem to always end up with an extra stitch on one side with my miters as well :)

Posted by: gleek at November 28, 2007 11:05 AM

Just 21 more squares to go...or 29 if you go for 80. but I'm not worried...you always make your dead lines.
Can't wait to see the finished afgahn.

Posted by: Orli at November 28, 2007 3:09 PM

Aaaack, 21 more, impossible! ;0) I'm going for 64 now, Orli. So that's just 13 more. At my now current pace of one a day, that's still doable. Phew!

Posted by: ALISON at November 28, 2007 5:32 PM

Looks like you're making progress. Keep on! I know you can do it.

Posted by: Marcia at November 29, 2007 12:15 AM

Oh, but they're SO pretty, even if they're going slow!

Posted by: PainterWoman at November 29, 2007 2:05 AM